The Aroha AND Ohinemuuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 2

The Aroha AND Ohinemuuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

1 Thin above nil —to thine own rcU be true, And it mnst follow an the night thn day Thou canat not then be fnlse to «ny man.' — Siiake^pbahk.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, IRBB

A report of the annual sjoncntl meeting of the Woodstock G. M. Co. fKnmnjfiihake), will be found, along with other •"mining news, on our fifth page. Mr J.S. Buoklnnd has publicly announced that ho has disposed of his auctioneering business in Waikato and smround>ng district-, to Mr J. MeNirol, as from Saturday lust, Ist inst. A mfetin«r of th^Ohinemui i Rivei Bo ird was held on Satnid.iy last at Iho Council Chambers, Pneroa, but w-is beins; no buwinePß to transact beyond thp confirm ition of the minute* of the first meeting. For time past woikmen have been engaged in repairing the Tp Aroho-P.icroa. rnad,chieflyin the nppprpoit ion of tho gorge Water tables arc being formed, and a quantity of boulders have been removed from the road. "Roth the Te Arohn Riding r^prespntatives at the last meeting of Piako Counby Coiinril voted in favour of the future meetings of thp Council being heldatCimbiidge instead of Moninsville. A number of natives from the Onvdia pah are at present entered in digging gum in the Wainikau ranges. Thoro are some gv>od patches of Kauri gum land in this district. The Minister of Linds, accompar.ird by the Rurvftvnr-Gonoral, leaves for Auckland overland this morning. We direct attention to Mr W. R. ■Robinson's' advertisement announcing a great reduction in prices for all classes of photography, enlargements, etc. Mr Robinson is well and favourably known for tho very excellent class of woik which issues from his studio ; and those -who favour him with an oider may rest assured of receiving first class value for their money. The Herald states that the Hamilton Public Library is not in n^ fiouiisliiiig a condition now financially since it was taken over by the Borough Council, as it was in the hands of a private committee. At the London wool sales on Satin day last. croßsbreds wero scarce. Good quality lealised mi advance of one penny pfv pound, and coarse a half-penny. A young man sent fifty cents to a New York advertiser to learn "how to make money fast," and was advised in reply to glue a five dollar greenback to the bottom of his ti nnk. Havintr neither greenbar-k nor trunk he feels that he is fifty cents out. At the Takapuna J. C. Meeting on Saturday last, Mr N. Dickey's (Paeroa) Recruit, won the Handicap Steeplechase of one hundred sovereigns, and was second in the Handicap Huidies. Mr W. H. Herries (Thompson and Herries, Shaftrsbnry) was a passenger by the Rimutaka wince arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday last. Mr Herries left in March lafct for his trip Home. At the monthly meeting of tho Board of Governors of the Thames High School on Monday last, a letter was read from Mr Thos. Murray, of Mangapai, suggesting that the Governors should take steps to eject Mr Had field from section 2 and 3 of the Board's endowment at Waioronsromai. The letter was referred to the Visiting Committee to take such action as they might deem advisable. At the last meeting of Piako County Council a letter was read from the Colonial Tieasurer, accorrpanied by a statement with rcgaid to the position of account, as between Council and the Thames Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, which tho Clerk had written and asked to have furnishetl. By the statement referred to, it appears what with the subsidiep stopped (£638 98 lOd) on account of the debt due Thames Board, and the amount the Board had received through the Supremo Court (£5OO odd) due Council for tramway haulage, the Board had been paid £240 more than the amount of Council's indebtednesp, which amount the Clerk had written requesting to have placed to Council's credit. A letter was read from the Commissioner of Crown Lands as follows. — Herewith I send .you a lithograph showing those of the reservations along the western bank of the Waihou which by the grants are roads, and which aro simply reservations. These reservations were formerly looked on as roads, until a dcci-« sion was given to the effect that they wero not, but merely reßervations, and this accounts for the mixing up of " roads and reservations" in the grants which wore issued at different dates. Consideration was deferred. An Exception to the "Love" Rule. — Miss SJRsie Debenhum : "Yes ; and tell me, Mr Darcy, please, what it was you meant when you called out 'Thirty, love!' to Miss Dawson at tennis just now ?"— - Mr Paul Darcy: "That merely implied, Miss Sissie, that I was thirty, and Miss Dawson was nothing — nothing to my thirty, you known."— Aiiss S. D.(d emu rely): "Oh then, when you any 1 Love,' Mr Daroy, it always mdans nothing, does . it? 11 -7#» f f. D. (masbingly ) ''Indeed it doesn't; Miss Sißeie. If I were to say it to you, for instance, it would mean — why, whole voluioea." [Leftscor-

The mhvil rmntWy »ne*»ti»sf of tho To. \r<mn Relinol Committee whm lield nn lust Monday evening, when it wn*» resolved ♦ hit tho annual school treat be held on Tannnrv fir^t, a<? usivil ; and that the neee^flarv funds he obtained by snhscrip* tionn. The nnmbcron the roll iV>r th») i»itt month Was IGI, nvfrngo nttend.ince 134 On nnr dny 150 chi'di^n were preßpnt. It \v»a rcolvcil to nt onoe make implication for nn ndditionnl teacher, requoßtinoc if possible that a main teneher bo appointed A f'lll report of the proceedings ia uniivoidibly held over till next issuo owing to pressure of other ntottcr. At t>»e meeting 1 of the Waioronpromai School Committee on Mnnd.»j r evening la«t, inn eh diKßatisfnetion was exproSßed in the aputhv »ho«\n by parents in regard to the attendance o f their children at hcljool. We understand that a fulling-off commenced immediately after the examination, and the number ntt^nding is still diminish' inir. Oi Friday last out of ninety-four on the roll, thpre were only fifty-three present. This non-iittend.mci*, l>esid*os being a loss to the children, is highly unsatisfactory to th's teacher, and it is unfair on the part of the parents to permit it. The Committee intend to take steps to biung the attendance in future up to its proper standard.